Email to SMS

Basically, SMTP-to-SMS gateways have narrow bandwidth, due to the need for mobile carriers to predict network traffic, as well as a way to prevent spam to their users. Furthermore, mobile carriers are not incentivized to successfully deliver SMTP-to-SMS messages, since they often provide this as a free service. Senders will see deferrals and blocks if they attempt to send high volumes without reaching a payment agreement with mobile carriers ahead of time.

SMS messages very often are delivered almost instantaneously (if the
receiving SMS client is online), but there is no guarantee for when
SMS messages will be delivered. In particular, SMS messages between
different network operators sometimes take a long time to be
delivered (hours or even days) or are not delivered at all, so
applications SHOULD NOT make any assumptions about the reliability
and performance of SMS message transmission.

Essentially, email to SMS may work for occasional messages at low volume, and even then it can be a gamble. If you need to send lots of SMS messages to your recipients, we recommend checking out our friends over at Twilio for more SMS notification functionality.